President Joe Biden is on pace to outveto his recent predecessors.

Biden has already issued nine vetoes during his presidency, on pace to best former President Donald Trump, who issued 10 during his four years in office, and Barack Obama, who signed 12 vetoes across two terms.

Biden has issued more than two dozen veto threats since Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in January 2023 on issues ranging from student loans to tax provisions to labor relations.

The veto habit has drawn the ire of conservatives, who say the president should work with Congress and point out that anything reaching Biden’s desk has gone through a Democratic-controlled Senate.

“In every case, the bills he vetoed earned bipartisan support and expressed the will of the people through their elected representatives,” said Jenny Beth Martin, honorary chairwoman of Tea Party Patriots Action. “Biden is so beholden to his left-wing base that even clearly bipartisan legislation receives his veto stamp at a higher rate than the last three presidents.”

The House could vote on two bills this week that the president has threatened to veto. The first is a disapproval resolution overturning the Biden administration’s decision to waive “Buy America” requirements for government-funded electric chargers, part of a wider effort to slow the White House’s push to electrify cars.

That measure has already passed the Senate, yet Biden described it as “harming domestic manufacturing and American jobs” in his threat to veto.

Another measure that could make it through Congress only to die at the president’s desk is a House bill that would overturn a National Labor Relations Board rule designed to make it easier to label businesses as joint employers. The rule is backed by labor unions, while opponents say it would negatively impact franchise businesses.

The bill’s GOP sponsors slammed Biden’s veto threat.

“Whenever Washington’s union cabal comes knocking on the president’s door, he immediately grovels on the floor, kisses their feet, and pledges to do their bidding,” House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said. “His veto threat to H.J.Res. 98 might as well have been cut and pasted from a union boss manifesto — it reeks of the same anti-entrepreneurial rot that his administration has always shoved down the throats of America’s workers and small businesses.”

Rep. John James (R-MI), the bill’s primary sponsor, added that “if Joe Biden vetoes my resolution to support Americans hoping to achieve the American dream, then Americans should veto Joe Biden.”

The president, however, says it is Republicans in Congress who are working to harm ordinary voters.

“Workers have the right to bargain for fair wages and working conditions with every company that directly or indirectly controls their terms and conditions of employment,” Biden said in his veto threat. “Too often, companies deny workers this right by hiding behind subcontractors, staffing agencies, and temporary agencies. Reversing this rulemaking will prevent workers from exercising their right to bargain for higher wages, better benefits, and safer working conditions.”

With the GOP-led now in session for 2024 and the closely divided Senate littered with swing voters such as Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Jon Tester (D-MT), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), the veto dance is likely to continue throughout the year.

When the White House has been asked about vetoes in the past, it has generally said it is protecting voters’ interests despite congressional actions.

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“Why does he accept the will of the people in one area but ignore the will of the people when it seeks to block the transfer of this debt to the taxpayers?” a reporter asked last June after Congress voted to overturn Biden’s $400 student loan forgiveness plan.

“I don’t think protecting American families or making sure that we give them a little bit of a breathing room is going against the will of the American people,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre responded, “when you think about his plan and how it’s going to help 90% of Americans who make $75,000 or less.”